bret and debbie clark and family: Part of Kyle's letter 4/15

I've been transferred....

The assistants to the president told me a couple of things that I thought about for the whole flight. As I thought about those things it felt as though heaps of responsibility was coming upon my shoulders. When the plane landed and I walked off, I took a deep breath of the Alice Springs air. And right when I did that a wonderful spirit came over me comforting me and giving me confirmation that I am supposed to be here.

Hello my family!!!
When I landed in Alice Springs I was picked up by the Zone Leaders and they took me to the senior couple's for lunch. Then after that they put me in the car and sent me out bush. We drove many hours on un paved roads out to aboriginal communities. Then we sleep out there. These people are very peaceful and very shy. They have a very different culture then normal. There forms of communication are different as well. They use lots of hand signals. A whole fourth of my mission I was trained to look at people in the eye when I taught and also when I listened. But Its a sign of aggression in there culture so now I am being trained to not look into their eyes. The Aboriginals hunt animals mainly Kangaroos. Throw them on the fire for a little while then eat them. The Kangaroo Tail is the best part. There is a lot of meat on that part. The work is very very succesful up here with baptisms happening everywhere. We drove into a community and two people that I have never met came and asked us if they could be baptized!!! There are only six missionaries (not including the senior
couple); me; Elder Gould, who is from bountiful, Utah; Elder Talaki, who is from tonga; Elder King, who is from Samoa; Elder Saddler and Reiri, who are from New Zealand and are Maori!!! Since there are so few of us in this area we do trade
offs all the time and all of us need to be unified. The area looks like a desert with some trees. The sand is red. And I love it. The little Camry's wouldn't be able to handle it up here so we have trucks. I love it up here all is well... except that I got a little sick. But all is well. I love you's!!! Keep going strong!!!
-Elder Kyle Clark

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Part of Kyle's letter 4/15

We had an amazing experience with a media referral. We role-played before we went to the door. I felt really really good about this referral. Her name is Karen. So we knock on the door not once not twice but eight times. I was so sad I just wanted her to be home. So finally as we are walking away she calls out to us. "Hello who is it?" "Hey is this Karen we are bringing you your free DVD." She opens the door and lets us in. She grabbed the DVD but she didn't really want to talk about the DVD. She started telling us that she was going to another church and they were pushing her to find the Gift of Tongues. But she doesn't really think thats right. So she has been praying and saw the commercial and called for the DVD. We showed up ~4 hours after she called!!!! We taught her about prayer and about prophets and how she could know the truth. She is a golden investigator and is going to be baptized before too long. Well James baptism was interesting. I got to create the baptism program from scratch, I got to call everyone and assign talks/prayers, and I got to perform the baptism. We are now working to get him the priesthood which reminds me... I dont think I have my line of authority. I was going to type it up but I dont think I got to it. :) could you send me my line of authority? I just got over a little cold. It was fun being sick because it gave me the oppurtunity to recieve more blessings by working through it!!! Alright let me tell you how important Jeewan is. Jeewan is the closest Nepali to baptism. He is ready but is waiting for his parents to move here from Nepal so they can be baptized with him. Our zone is counting on us to get him baptized because if we get him baptized, then he will lead to heaps and heaps of other Nepali baptisms. So he is very crucial!!! But we had him introduce us to his brother. So we've been over teaching him. His name is Biran. We had a really transformational lesson where revelation was guiding our words. We promised him an answer to his prayer!!! He is turning into another Jeewan who is excited about the Gospel. I've only had 1 tea date (dinner) this transfer. So we decided that instead of people signing up to feed us we are just going to have people sign up to give us service instead!! This is good for me too because they always give us icecream for dessert and I can never resist!!!!!

1 comment:

remington and mindyApril 16, 2009 at 9:24 PM
I missed you guys on Sunday, but I am now feeling much better! Sounds like Kyle is a great missionary and loving it, congratulations on his first baptism!
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